Middle East & Africa Reg Desk

Thursday, 2026-10-22 · covering the last 24h

Gulf

No new items in the window. Checked individually: the Saudi CMA's newsroom (fetched directly — only the three items already reported yesterday, nothing dated 22 Oct); Tadawul's market-news channel (via search, direct fetch blocked); DFSA's news page (fetched directly — most recent item is 15 Oct) and consultation list (CP173 of 7 Jul remains the latest); ADGM's announcements (a 20 Oct London trade-delegation visit is not a rule); UAE CMA's media centre (still empty); and QFMA, Kuwait CMA/Boursa Kuwait, SAMA and CBUAE via targeted dated search — nothing dated 21–22 October found for any of them.

Israel

No material items in the window. Checked individually via search (ISA's own site remains an empty shell): the ISA's live drafts (the one-off advice/restricted-assets directive, closed 13 Oct, and the unfinalised August past-performance draft, both unchanged); the Bank of Israel's Banking Supervision Department (nothing past the already-known small/new-banks directive and temporary Operation Roaring Lion extensions); TASE; and the Herzog Law and Lexology trackers — nothing dated October found.

Africa

No material items in the window. Checked individually via search (JSE, FSCA and Nigeria's SEC pages remain dead ends): the Government Gazette, which surfaced only SARB Notice 4183/2026 (2 Oct) authorising Wise Payments SA as an Authorised Dealer — an entity-specific authorisation, not a rule change, so out of scope; the SARB's exchange-control channel; Egypt's FRA and Official Gazette; Nigeria's SEC/NGX and CBN; Kenya's CMA/NSE and CBK (the National Payment System Bill, closed for comment 9 Oct, still has no Cabinet action); Morocco's AMMC and Bank Al-Maghrib (its only output is a routine weekly FX bulletin); and the Mondaq/Lexology trackers — nothing newer found.

Informational only — summaries of public regulatory and central bank sources; not advice.